The city celebrates its most outstanding taxi drivers, and two local
cabbies make the list.
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City eases
water ban

Some watering
allowed,
splash pads to open
LAURA MUELLER
laura.mueller@metroland.com

RED AND WHITE

Canada Day in Barrhaven gets a
funding boost from a federal government program.
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Gardens and lawns in Barrhaven, Riverside South and
Manotick will be a bit greener
now that the city has eased the
outdoor water ban, but city
councillors are calling on resi-

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dents to continue to be vigilant
in following the remaining restrictions.
Mayor Jim Watson announced on June 14 that southend residents can now use
outdoor water for one day per
week.
The area has been divided
into five zones and each zone
will be able to water gardens,
fill kiddie pools and clean
green bins on their designated
day.
See ‘Water’ page 6

Two new elementary
schools for Barrhaven
jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com

BEHIND BARS

The Ottawa Humane Society’s locks
up funds to help with a move to a
new home
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Class is in session for Barrhaven.
A June 15 announcement by
provincial Minister of Education Leona Dombrowsky mean
Barrhaven students will have
two new elementary schools.
One will be part of the English public board, and the other

a will be under the French Catholic board.
The local public school trustee
said he is happy with the plans,
which should see the English elementary school open in a little
more than two years.
“I’m excited about the project
moving forward in Barrhaven,”
said trustee Mark Fisher.
See ‘Growing’ page 4

Photo by Laurie Matheson

HAVING A BLAST
Colvin O’Driscoll blasts a pingpong ball across a table in his Grade 6
class at St. Andrew’s Catholic School in Barrhaven on June 15. The event
was part of an IBM innovation celebration to encourage creativity. See
page 14 for more coverage.

The birds are singing
A look inside the Wild Bird Care Centre in Nepean

JENNIFER MCINTOSH
jennifer.mcintosh@metroland.com

When you turn into the gravel driveway that leads to the Wild Bird Care Centre on Moodie Drive, you can see why one
volunteer called it “the place that feeds
the soul.”
Deep in the woods, off of the Beaver
Trail in the Greenbelt area surrounding
Stony Swamp, the centre is home to 175
different species of birds and is open 365
days a year — barring Christmas Day
and New Year’s Day.
Just in the first part of June, the centre
took in 290 birds — a number executive
director Deborah Hass says will probably double by July.
“We are absolutely swamped this time
of year,” she said, as the centre takes in
birds that suffer from everything from
cat attacks to habitat destruction.
One domestic duck, which has been
temporarily named Strawberry, was
found by a concerned citizen at Billings
Bridge Plaza with neon-pink spray paint
on her back.
While the staff tries not to get attached
to the birds, it has quickly become popular and garnered a spot on a blanket in
the small office near the lunch room.
“I can’t understand why anyone would
do that,” Hass said.
And there are hundreds more. One
permanent resident — Violet, a turkey
vulture that was shot — spends her days
outside the centre. She will never be released back into the wild because she can
no longer use one of her wings.
While the mandate is to rehabilitate
and release, Patty Summers, education
tour coordinator at the centre, said that
sometimes it just isn’t possible.
In another room sits a hummingbird,
whose tail was torn off by a cat. The little
bird will likely be released this summer
— but in the meantime, feeding her is a
challenge.
Staff attempted to use a sugary solution, but she was soon dubbed Jelly
Bean, because her feathers soon became
coated.
Jelly Bean will be released into the

PATTY SUMMERS

Photo by Jennifer McIntosh

A baby crow sits in an incubator at the Nepean Wild Bird Care Centre. The babies sometimes have to be fed as often as every 20 minutes throughout the day, and the sound of their cries can often require the use of ear plugs.
wild once her tail grows back fully.
Hass said 95 per cent of medical treatments are done on site and requests from
as far away as California.
“Once we got a call from Nunavut for
a Tundra swan, and another time we had
to return an Atlantic puffin to Sudbury,”
she said, adding that when calls come in,
they can’t assume they are coming from
Ottawa — or even Canada.
It’s a long way from the first patient
— a hummingbird named Pip — whose
founder Kathy Nihei treated in her own
home.
Nihei, who passed away after a battle
with cancer in 2009, is fondly remembered by staff and volunteers as having
a way with the birds.
“I have never met a person who was as
kind hearted as Kathy,” Hass said. “And
she cared passionately for animals.”
Nihei lived with the birds in her home
for 11 years before the building off Moodie Drive opened up.
Now the centre rents from the National Capital Commission, and they are feeling the pinch.
Hass estimates that utility bills and
other costs have gone up about 30 per
cent in the last few years.
“We know our donors are feeling the
pinch too,” she said.
The centre accepts birds from 8 a.m. to
4 p.m.
Visitors can come and see the centre
and its patients from noon to 3 p.m. every
day.
During their busy summer months,
Hass said the centre employs approximately nine staff including summer
students. They also have about 20 or 30

Photo by Jennifer McIntosh

A domestic duck Nepean Wild Bird Care Centre staff have dubbed ‘Strawberry’ was
found by a resident at Billings Bridge Shopping Plaza with neon pink spray paint on its
back.
volunteers working the centre.
During the fall and winter month, the
staff dwindles down to three full time
and one part-time member — which can
be a challenge because some of the babies and smaller species need to be fed as
often as every 30 minutes.

Summers said she has been working
and volunteering at the centre off and on
since she was 16 years old.
The days are long and at times, can be
shrill, but Hass said it is all worth it.
“It’s the kind of job you can be proud
of,” she said.

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Community

Kitchen blaze badly
damages Barrhaven home
STAFF
A kitchen fire in a twostorey Barrhaven home
on June 19 resulted in
$300,000 in damages to the
home and $150,000 to contents.
Ottawa Fire Services
attended the house at 78
Knowlton Dr. shortly after
2:30 p.m. Callers reported

hearing the alarms ringing but no one was answering the door, public
information officer Marc
Messier said.
Messier said firefighters could see flames and
smoke coming from the
garage and the siding. No
one was home at the time
of the fire.
Most of the fire was

knocked down in the
kitchen before 3 p.m.,
Messier added. Firefighters proceeded to check
the rest of the house for
extension.
The two occupants were
away from the home at
the time of the fire. There
were no pets in the home.
The cause of the fire is
under investigation.

Compassion in the service of care, Jamie
MacDougall and the Order of Canada

Jamie MacDougall is
the founder and Director of The Ottawa
Hospital’s Institute
for
Rehabilitation
Research and Development. He grew up
in Overbrook, a brisk
run from the General
Campus. He went to
high school at Lisgar,
beside City Hall.
His commitment to Ottawa is obvious. It is his commitment to Canada’s Deaf and persons with disability that
led to his investiture in the Oder of Canada, on May 27.
“You immediately think of all the people that made it possible, especially those with disabilities who inspired me. It
is validation for thousands of people,” says MacDougall
of the honour.
Deafness and disability is personal for MacDougall. His
parents, Peter and Gladys, were both deaf. His daughter,
Paige, suffered a serious head injury at age 17, bringing
his awareness of disabilities even closer to home.
“People with disabilities have greater potential than we
realize,” says MacDougall. “They have to overcome a lot
of stereotypes…Just like everyone else, they aspire to realize their full potential.”
Rusty Wendt, the head Carleton University’s Department of Psychology, understood this calling early on,
convincing McDougall to take a summer job working
with deaf parents seeking better means to communicate with their hearing children.

MacDougall left Carleton for McGill, getting his Masters
and PhD in Clinical Psychology, studying the psychological impact of sensory deprivation and the link between
deafness and literacy. Moving to Newfoundland’s Memorial University, he studied the impact of resettlement on
cognitive development in children. From there, he went on
to Rochester New York’s National Technical Institute for
the Deaf. Then, back to McGill, where he spent 40 years
teaching in the area of deafness and disability, and lead
the Mackay Centre for Deaf and Disabled Children.
His research is rooted in the everyday challenges faced by
the Deaf and persons with disability. “Whether its children
or adults,” says MacDougall, “I’ve been touched by the
courage of extraordinary people.” Those people, in turn,
have enabled valuable research.
“The strength of clinically driven research is that it is both
practical and sophisticated because of the problems it allows us to explore”.
During one particularly complex case with a deaf Inuk in
Nunavut who was said to have no language, MacDougall
discovered the Inuit had their own sign language – Inuit
Sign Language.
His ability to extend clinical work beyond the hospital into
the real world sets MacDougall apart.
Working with advocacy groups such as the Canadian
Hearing Society and the Canadian Association of the Deaf,
he fought to ensure people with disabilities enjoy the full
protection of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
His example brings The Ottawa Hospital a step closer to
its vision of providing each patient with the world class
care, exceptional service and compassion we would want
for our loved ones.
Nicolas Ruszkowski is VP Communications and Outreach
at The Ottawa Hospital. Each week, he will share behind-the-scenes insight from the hospital. E-mail him at
nruszkowski@toh.on.ca
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Photo by Jennifer McIntosh

Minister of Education Leona Dombrowsky is surrounded by a class at École élémentaire
catholique Laurier Carrière following her announcement on June 15 of funding that will
mean two new elementary schools for Barrhaven.

Growing communities, schools
Continued from front
“They need that school. I’m going to
do my level best to push for the school in
Findlay Creek and the expansion at Steve
MacLean,” he added.
The new public school will cost about
$13.7 million and will be built on a parcel
of land within the Chapman Mills neighbourhood, at the corner of Chapman Mills
Drive and Leamington Way.
Its doors will open in September 2013
with a capacity for 600 students.
Chair of the French Catholic school
board, Diane Doré, said the money comes
just in time.
“We have really seen our numbers grow.
We hope to have 20,000 students across the
board by September,” she said. “Our students are having some of the best successes in and that’s thanks to the partnership
we have with the province.”
Bob Chiarelli, MPP for Ottawa-West Nepean, said as minister of Infrastructure
he sees the benefits of new schools to the
local economy.
“This allows us to focus on achievements and better outcomes,” he said.
Dombrowsky said spending money on
schools is a good idea.
“Investing in our schools is critical to
helping every child reach his or her potential and succeed,” Dombrowsky said. “Our
government is committed to making the
necessary investments and planning to
ensure the future success of our children
and grandchildren.”
New schools are something NepeanCarleton MPP Lisa MacLeod has asked for

several times to address the growing population in Barrhaven.
“The Barrhaven and Riverside South
communities of Nepean-Carleton are two
of the fastest-growing communities in all
of Ottawa, if not all of Canada,” she said
during a March 29 question period.
MacLeod said the population nearly
doubled between 2001 and 2006, reaching
52,000.
DOUBLED IN SIZE
“It…is expected to double again to over
100,000 within the next five years,” she
said. “That means there’s been a demand
on the Ottawa-Carleton District School
Board and the other three in my riding for
more public education.”
MacLeod said she has been championing the school in Barrhaven for several
months, but is disappointed a new public
high school isn’t yet planned for Riverside
South.
“I think we definitely need something
in Barrhaven,” she said. “The kids are in
portables and the schools are bursting at
the seams. But I will continue to work for
a high school in Riverside South.”
This year, work will begin on 43 new
schools across the province, with another
30 receiving additions or retrofits.
The complete provincial funding announcement will mean approximately
$650 million in new schools, as well as renovations and additions to existing schools.
The money will be doled out over the next
three years.
With files from Emma Jackson

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Join TMA on SATURDAY JUNE 25TH FROM 11 AM TO 4 PM
to participate in the BLOCK PARTY with all of the proceeds going to CHEO!
The whole family is invited to Therien Martial Arts for our annual CHEO Block Party!
It’s a jam-packed day full of activities, food, and games, with a carnival (bouncy castles anyone?!)
and, of course, Martial Arts demonstrations.
The cost? $20 for kids to participate and free for Mom and Dad with proceeds beneﬁting the CHEO Foundation.
You can also drop by anytime and receive a full month of complimentary Martial Arts training
with a donation to CHEO.

Continued from front
The full ban will be enforced
on weekends, but the city will
open area splash pads on Saturdays and Sundays.
The
complications
don’t
end when residents determine
which of the five zones they live
in (go to ottawa.ca/waterinfo
to enter your address). The restrictions have only been lifted
for watering plants and trees
by hand (not sprinklers), filling kiddie pools and containers
such as rain barrels and cleaning recycling bins or garbage
cans.
Topping up pools and hot tubs
is not allowed, nor is cleaning
your car, washing your driveway or any unattended watering, such as using a sprinkler.
And don’t even think about
breaking out your pressure
washer.
Businesses, including car
washes and garden centres,
must still follow the full ban.
Rachel Carkner, an old Barrhaven resident who ventured
down the street to hear the announcement on June 14, said the
revised restrictions might only
serve to muddy the waters.
“I think it could get a little
complicated,” she said.
Carkner and her sister Hayley said the ban hasn’t affected
them as much as they expected,
but added that easing the ban
will make summer more bearable and fun for children.
Dixon Weir, the city’s general
manager of environmental services said he is confident southend residents will be diligent
in following the revised restrictions of the partial ban.
“People are very interested in
protecting their community,” he
said. “We’re comfortable with
this or we wouldn’t have come
forward with this,” he added.
“At this time, every drop of
water counts,” said Gloucester-South Nepean Coun. Steve
Desroches. “If demand on the
residential system is too high,
we will have to return to the full
ban.”
While the end of the ban has
already been moved up twice
– the most recently announced
completion date is July 15 – and
extra pipes connecting to the
nearby Hunt Club Road water
main have added more capacity

Splash pads have reopened in south Ottawa and water may be used outdoors if residents follow the strict
rotation detailed at right.
to the system, there still isn’t
enough water to allow normal
summer use.
Weir said easing the restrictions will result in a 20 to 25 per
cent increase in water usage
in the south end compared to
the current consumption, but

that is still much less than the
amount that would be used in a
typical summer.
The ban was applied to 80,000
residents about 50 days ago, after the Woodroofe Avenue watermain failed.
Construction is ongoing to fix

the main, but in the meantime,
if people in south-end communities use too much water, it could
depressurize the system and
allow groundwater to contaminate the treated tap water. The
city says the ban is necessary to
prevent that health risk.

Community

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Photo by City of Ottawa

Taxi driver Tesfai Asfaha receives the Driver Role Model Award from Coun. Mark
Taylor and general manager Susan Jones at the City of Ottawa’s Taxi Driver
Appreciation Celebration on June 14.

The city presented special
awards to six Ottawa taxi drivers for their excellent service at
its second annual Taxi Driver
Appreciation Celebration, held
June 14 at city hall.
The ceremony recognizes the
service provided by taxi drivers
in the city. Customers and members of Ottawa’s taxi industry
nominated candidates for five
award categories: excellent customer service, access for all,
driver role model, heroism and
lifetime achievement.
“Today’s six award recipients
have provided exemplary customer service through their kind
and heroic actions,” said Coun.
Mark Taylor, chair of the community and protective services
committee.
“Their actions remind us why
customer service in the taxi industry is so important to our
community and economy. These
helping hands and smiling faces
play an important role in our
transportation network every
day.”
Barrhaven and south Ottawa
recognized two drivers from the
area with top honours.
Marc Khouri of Barrhaven

won the Access for All Award. He has been driving for West-Way Taxi for nine years. He is recognized by his customers for his caring service and
positive attitude.
ROLE MODEL
Tesfai Asfaha was recognized with the Driver Role Model Award. He drives in GloucesterSouth Nepean.
During Asfah’s 12-year career as a driver, he
has demonstrated leadership and support for his
colleagues. He says that while the job of driving
a taxi can be stressful, it is also very rewarding and he his fortunate to have so many good
friends in the business.

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Be a donor
Imagine having the potential
to save eight lives and enhance
75 more.
It’s all possible by registering
online as an organ and tissue
donor.
More than 1,500 Ontarians
are on the list waiting for an
organ transplant. Every three
days, someone in this province
dies while waiting for a life-saving transplant.
Thousands more are waiting for a tissue transplant that
could help enhance their lives.
You can change that.
All you have to do is take a
few minutes out of your day to
register as an organ and tissue
donor online.
Signed donor cards are no
longer an acceptable option; the
card may not be available when
the information is needed and
your wishes will go unknown.

The online registry stores
your information in a Ministry
of Health and Long-Term Care
database and shares your decision to donate with the Trillium
Gift of Life Network, Ontario’s
organ and tissue donation
agency.
When you register, you
ensure your decision to donate
will be carried out in the event
of your death – donation is only
an option after all life-saving
efforts have failed.
Granted, death is a morbid
subject – especially when it
comes unexpectedly.
But your organs and tissue
won’t do any good for anyone
when they’re six feet under.
Corneas could help a woman
see the world around her.
A skin graft could help a
burn victim heal.
A new pair of lungs could

give a child with cystic fibrosis
the breath to carry on.
A new heart could give a
father the chance to watch his
son grow up.
Anyone can donate regardless of pre-existing medical conditions and lifestyle. You can
also choose what to give.
The doctors assess the organs
and tissue and make the decision from there as to what’s
viable.
The only requirement is that
you are 16 years of age or older.
Don’t leave the burden of
choice up to your loved ones.
Register online at www.
beadonor.ca, visit a ServiceOntario centre or download and
mail in the Gift of Life consent
form to become an organ and
tissue donor.
Save a life.
Save eight lives.

COLUMN

Yet another good reason to head for the lake
Next week the fighting will start – the
people who want to go off to the cottage
for Canada Day against the people who
want to stay in town and see Will and
Kate.
There are other subgroups, the people who want to stay in town to see the
jazz festival and the people who want to
stay in town for the fireworks, but that’s
quite a different matter.
You might think this upcoming battle
is a battle of the sexes – the women
wanting to see the royal couple and the
men wanting to go fix the dock – but
that’s old-fashioned stereotyped thinking. It’s more complicated than that.
Back in April there were an awful lot of
people, both male and female, who got
up at five in the morning to watch the
royal wedding on TV.
Around that time, I remarked casually to a group of like-minded people
that it was crazy and perhaps even
un-Canadian of the CBC to send Peter
Mansbridge over to London to cover
the wedding just three days before a
Canadian federal election. Turns out
that many people were less like-minded
than I thought. There was much leaping
to the defence of the CBC and defending of the historical importance of the

CHARLES
GORDON
Funny Town
royal wedding.
This, of course, doesn’t mean I was
wrong.
Anyway, the whole argument will
now start up again. Some people will
say that the way to go about being a
good Canadian on Canada Day is to go
to a lake and do something with a canoe
or a tree. In doing so we are honouring
our ancestors and our heritage.
Others will argue that the Crown
is part of what makes Canada special
and that we should salute it in person
whenever the opportunity arises. Not
all of these people are old codgers. Now,
it’s true that the motorcade isn’t going
to stop for them, nor will they be able to
get close enough to salute, but it’s the
thought that counts.
It should also be noted that there is a
rapidly growing number of Canadians

whose heritage includes neither lakes
and canoes nor royal couples from England. If you’re in that group, you might
be very confused by it all, and should
maybe just hang out at the jazz festival,
where neither God Save the Queen nor
O Canada is likely to be played.
Mind you, you might hear the CF-18s
and the 21 guns.
One of the reasons the monarchy
has survived so long in this country is
that people tend to be rather good-natured about it. It helps that most of our
royal visitors in recent times have been
rather pleasant and it is difficult even
for a committed republican to direct the
necessary amount of outrage against
them.
Will and Kate, too, seem quite nice.
If you want to work up a case against
a royal visit it is necessary to search
for some other reason. The only one
that springs to mind is that having a
princess in our midst might encourage more of our Canadian little girls to
want to be princesses.
Feminists and other sensible people
have been worrying about the princess phenomenon for some time now
– parents dressing their daughters up
in frilly pink costumes, sometimes even

with little crowns and tiaras. It is the
result of a marketing ploy some people
blame on the Disney empire. Whoever
is at fault, it isn’t doing much to persuade our daughters to become doctors,
engineers, soldiers, hockey players or
any of the things they can be that don’t
involve marrying princes.
It’s unlikely that Kate, when she gets
to Ottawa, will be wearing a crown or
anything frilly and pink, but you can
never be too careful, which is why heading for the lake isn’t such a bad idea.
Everybody knows you can’t be a princess and climb a tree at the same time.

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Greely man pushing
for station in village
DANIEL NUGENT-BOWMAN
daniel.bowman@metroland.com

A Greely man is calling for a complete
overhaul to the emergency service structure in his community, starting with a
new ambulance station in the village.
Paul Ryan said there needs to be a
guarantee that ambulances will be able
to serve residents in a quick and timely
manner.
To increase the odds of doing so, the
Greely Community Association member
is suggesting the city should turn the
old library – which used to be a fire hall
– into a station for an ambulance.
“It is the perfect location for an emergency services outfit for the south end,”
Ryan said. “They can be there and not
feel they’re encroaching on the fire department.”
Right now, the closest rural Ottawa
posts are in Metcalfe, eight kilometres
away, Manotick, 14 kilometres, and Osgoode, 16 kilometres. Each post houses
one ambulance.
Pierre Poirier, deputy chief of the Ottawa paramedic service, said there are
no immediate plans to fulfill Ryan’s suggestion.
He said there are no guarantees that
any of the three nearest stations are
manned at any given time. An ambulance could be called in from outside the
city’s boundaries if need be, from communities such as Winchester.
“Right now, the area is pretty well
served,” Poirier said. “Could it be better

served? Possibly. But we don’t have that
on our plan right now.”
Poirier added that it would take five
minutes to get to Greely from Metcalfe.
But that’s if an ambulance is stationed
there, Ryan said.
Through conversations with Osgoode
Coun. Doug Thompson, Ryan said no
log is kept with the city to mandate the
amount of time each ambulance is stationed at its particular post.
NO DATA
“Why don’t they have (a log) so we can
see what the time is?” Ryan asked.
Poirier said no log kept is because
each ambulance must start and end its
shift at the appropriate post – 7 a.m. and
7 p.m. – and is tracked in real time by the
paramedics’ automatic vehicle location
system.
Calls to Thompson were not returned
by press time.
“For us it’s always whoever is the closest in time,” Poirier said of the dispatch
procedure.
But Ryan still believes too many ambulances are waiting at the city’s hospitals
while waiting for a call instead of going
back to their post.
Ryan said he saw an abundance of
emergency vehicles while recently visiting his wife, who was recently at the Civic campus of the Ottawa Hospital while
undergoing heart surgery.
He believes the time is now for the
community of 6,000 people to be better
served.
“Clearly all of us here in the south are
at a disadvantage if all the ambulances
are stationed at the Civic or the General,” Ryan said.

Have fun in the sun on Saturday, June 25,
with Therien Martial Arts & Fitness! Join the
CHEO Block Party and help reach Therien’s
high kicking $20,000 fundraising target.
This annual event kicks off at both Stittsville
and Manotick locations at 11 a.m. with
activities ﬁt for the whole family. Come for
bouncy castles, face painting, a games
room inside for the kids, and martial arts
demonstrations where kids can try out their
moves. What kid doesn’t want to be a ninja?
There’s even a mini carnival to keep those of
all ages entertained!

Barrhaven Ottawa South This Week - JUNE 23 2011

Ambulance wait times in
Greely too long: resident

Family Fun at the CHEO Block Party!
Hana Abaza from Therien Martial Arts &
Fitness said: “It seemed appropriate to
mark our 20th year with $20,000. We know
with the support of our communities, we can
reach this target – no problem. The ﬁrst year,
we raised $5000 and were able to double
it the second year to $10, 000. We thought
why not aim to double the number again!”
Therien is a huge supporter of CHEO and
has been raising money for the charity over
a number of years. Hana said: “Our owner,
Randy Cooligan has personal experience
with the amazing people at CHEO. Both his
daughters have been diagnosed with Cystic
Fibrosis and both are still quite young.
Needless to say this is a cause that is very
close to his heart.”

For the adults, indulge in a 50/50 draw,
silent auction and other great promotions
happening throughout the day. Local
businesses are on board to make sure that The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
there are some amazing prizes to win!
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that provides amazing family-centred
No need to cook in this hot weather, Therien patient care, pioneering breakthrough
will be serving up hot dogs and hamburgers research, and training for new health care
from the BBQ and, to satisfy that dessert professionals.
craving, tuck in to the delicious offers from
cupcake gurus Little Cakes who will be The block party is perfect for introducing
providing CHEO mini cupcakes especially your little ones to the increasingly popular
for the event, or grab a piece of cake while sport of martial arts. Therien runs a range
you watch all the fun. If this isn’t enough of classes for children and adults. It’s
then check out the bake sale for some more a great way help your child gain focus
tasty treats.
and conﬁdence to face the challenges in
everyday life, improve grades in school and
If you are keen to give the sport a go, but keepthem active. As Therien says, “away
hesitant to sign up then take advantage from the TV and into a cool uniform.” Kids
of the CHEO Block Party special offer. and adults can’t help but have a great time,
Receive a month of free training by donating while getting ﬁt.
to the CHEO fund. Get ﬁt, while supporting
a great cause.
The club will also be running a summer camp
were your kids get the chance to practise
Last year the Therien team raised over martial arts everyday, meet new friends and
$10,000 for this important children’s charity. go on some amazing ﬁeld trips too!
This year, Therien’s 20th year in business,
they are celebrating a mile stone and have So, go on and have some fun with a kick and
doubled their target.
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Infill recommendations delayed
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Residents and community associations
that were hoping for some changes to the
rules guiding infill housing in the city
will have to wait.
Recommendations on how the city can
better enforce its guidelines for how infill
housing – homes that fill smaller spaces
and are often taller and lack yard space
– have been delayed.
A public meeting was set to be held this
month, but that won’t be happening until
September.
FEEDBACK
The city has received so much feedback
on the controversial guidelines that staff
need more time to sift through all the
ideas and co-ordinate with affected city
departments, said Selma Hassan, who is
in charge of the project.
People came out in droves and sent
many emails bemoaning the lack of teeth

in the city’s rules governing infill homes.
Many community members say inappropriate infill is slowly ruining the fabric of
their communities.
Although the city discourages it, many
infill homes end up using the first floor as
a garage, which changes the streetscape.
Rules about how much of the front yard
can be taken up by a driveway are also
frequently ignored, according to a study
Hassan conducted last year.
Those were among the many issues
Hassan is trying to reconcile with the
city’s rules.
As she sifts through more than 400 comments and suggestions, developers have
also been meeting with community members who are interested in the challenges
posed by small-scale infill housing.
Development industry stakeholders
and representatives from community associations gathered last week to continue
the dialogue about this issue, Hassan
said.
“It’s an opportunity to create some kind
of working relationship,” she said.

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Students from St. Andrew
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had a chance to strut their creative and innovative genius on
June 15 as IBM employees were
on site to encourage critical and
creative thinking.
IBM’s Rob Ashe, business
analytics executive, encouraged
student participation to kick
off the event, then volunteers
led Grade 6 students through a
series of tasks designed to teach
them how to “think outside the
box.”
These included team building exercises like making something as tall as possible with
six of eight items given to them
and it had to be strong enough
to hold a ping pong ball. Another exercise included using 15
sheets of paper to engineer the
tallest tower possible; and, using six paper cups and a rubber
band, create a 3-2-1 style pyramid without communicating
verbally with team members.
“It’s great to see kids this
age work together,” said Ashe.
“They are very creative and are
bending the rules. That’s the
key to innovation... breaking
the rules.”
One of the students in Valerie
Bailey’s class said she enjoyed
the exercise.
“It’s not like anything I have
ever done before,” she said. “It
shows that it’s not just my idea
but everyone working together
as a whole group and it’s neat
to see all our ideas come together.”
Bailey said she enjoyed watching her students come up with
various ideas to solve the same
problems.
“It’s about 21st century learning; creative problem solving
and finding answers together,”
Bailey said. “We do similar
exercises in math and the students really enjoy the hands-on
part of it and trying to come up
with solutions together. I think
the learning has more meaning
when they are constructive in
groups like this.”
Thousands of IBMers around
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Photos by LJ Matheson

Grade 6 class at St. Andrew’s Catholic School in Barrhaven on June 15 took part in an IBM inovation to encourage creative thinking and increase
problem solving.
the company’s 100th anniversary (June 16) and builds on its
long tradition of community
service by engaging employees,
retirees, clients, business partners and others in local service
projects in 170 countries where
IBM does business.
One of the Ottawa-based activities includes the IBM-facilitated Destination ImagiNation
Creativity Camp for kids, where
small teams of 11-year-olds
unleash their creativity, critical thinking and collaboration
skills to complete challenges
like bridge-building or tower
construction using common
household items.
St. Andrew Catholic School
was one of 13 schools in the Ottawa Catholic School Board participating in the event. More than
270 Ontario schools took part
in this IBM centennial activity.
Nearly 500 Ottawa students participated in this initial round of
the camps, alongside more than
60 local IBM volunteers.

A Grade 6 class at St. Andrew’s
Catholic School in Barrhaven was
part of an IBM inovation event
on June 15 to encourage creative
thinking and increase problem
solving with various students
across the region.

The Grade 6 class at St. Andrew’s Catholic School in Barrhaven took
part in an IBM inovation and centennial celebration to encourage
creative thinking and increase problem solving with various students
across the region. Pictured are Bob Dumelie, IBM’s development manager for the software group with students Ryan Couvrette and Kayla
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The Canada Day celebrations in Barrhaven got a
boost with a cheque from the federal government for
$11,875.
Nepean-Carleton MPP Pierre Poilievre announced
the funding at the Clarke Fields site on June 17.
“Canada Day is an opportunity to celebrate the
country we live in and I am happy that the federal
government is encouraging this effort through the
Celebrate Canada Fund,” Poilievre said.
The funds come from the Ministry of Canadian
Heritage — which provides financial support for
activities organized during the “celebrate Canada”
period from June 21 to July 1.
The funds given to the Barrhaven Canada Day
celebration will go towards the Canada Day Parade,
fireworks, live entertainment and games and activities for children.
Organizers said it is expected that 30,000 people
are expected to participate in the celebration.
“We are very excited for what we have planned for
this year’s Canada Day celebrations at Clarke Fields
Park,” said Darrell Bartraw, Chair of the Mattamy
Homes Canada Day in Barrhaven. “We hope that
you will agree that this is the biggest and best Barrhaven Canada Day Celebration yet.”

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THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
In October 2009, Rhea Ferguson’s father, Bill, was

diagnosed with esophageal gastric cancer at age
59.
After successfully undergoing treatment at
The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, the family
received some devastating news – the cancer was
back, and this time, it was inoperable.
Ferguson also knows more about the need for
cancer research than the average person. She
recently completed her Master’s degree in cancer
epidemiology at McGill University, has worked
with cancer researcher Dr. John Bell at The Ottawa
Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and is currently
working as a database manager for the Hospital’s
ovarian cancer bank.
“Cancer research has always been a big passion
for me,” said the 26-year-old Ottawa native.
“There’s a history of cancer in my family. I lost all
my grandparents to it.”

Ferguson, who is riding as a member of the
Cancer Trailblazers, the OHRI Cancer Centre team,
said she reached her fundraising goal of $1,500
in just two weeks.
“People are so generous,” she said. “Everyone
knows someone who is affected by the disease.
“It would be amazing to have another treatment
option that is… not so hard on the body,” she
said. “The research needs to continue.”
With her father’s health rapidly declining, she said
she will be thinking about him when she does the
ride on Sept. 10.
“I’m hoping to be able to tell him about it,” she
said.
To support Rhea Ferguson’s ride, or to join her
mother, Sheila Ferguson, as a volunteer, visit
www.ridetherideau.ca

Looking for a way to make a difference, she
learned about Ride the Rideau, a 100 km cycling
fundraiser from Ottawa to Merrickville to support
cancer research at The Ottawa Hospital, and
immediately signed up.
“It’s raising money for where I work, and it’s
going to where my dad was treated,” she said. “It
was a perfect ﬁt.”
Ferguson’s mother, Sheila, also got on board as a
Ride the Rideau volunteer.

Ride the Rideau participant Rhea Ferguson with her
parents, Sheila and Bill.

“My mom and I are involved because my dad
is dying of cancer,” she said. “We want to do
something for him. It’s a personal cause for both
of us.”

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New Greely branch of Ottawa
Public Library opens
Building almost triple
the size of former library
STAFF
The new Greely branch of the Ottawa
Public Library officially opened to the
public last week with many enjoying the
modern and bright facility that is about
three times larger than the previous
one.
Residents can look forward to enjoying a new local branch thanks to a joint
$1.2 million investment from all three
levels of government. Library customers
joined federal, provincial and municipal
representatives on June 13 to celebrate
the opening of the new facility.
“Libraries help shape our cities and
neighbourhoods by promoting learning,
research, reading and community building,” said Nepean-Carleton MP Pierre
Poilievre, who is the parliamentary secretary to the minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities.
“Our government’s investment in this
beautiful new building will enable the
Ottawa Public Library to more easily
serve the growing community of Greely
through its numerous programs, activities and resources.”
At approximately 280 square metres,

the new library is fully accessible and
features designated areas for adults,
teens and children, self-serve kiosks, a
meeting room and additional space for
children’s programming aimed at Greely’s growing population.
“Through our Open Ontario Plan,
we’re building foundations for success
and prosperity throughout our province,” said MPP Bob Chiarelli, Ontario’s
minister of Infrastructure. “The government of Ontario is proud to be part of
this new modern library, which will be a
community hub where families can learn
and grow for many years to come.”
‘GREAT RESOURCE’
Mayor Jim Watson said the library
will be a great resource for residents of
Greely and the surrounding community.
“Libraries are an important place
where residents can gather and learn
about each other and their world,” Watson said. “We are proud to work with our
federal and provincial partners to deliver
this new library branch in this flourishing part of the city.”
Under the infrastructure stimulus
fund, the governments of Canada and
Ontario each contributed about $400,000
toward this project.
The City of Ottawa has contributed the
remaining costs.

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The city’s coolest cats managed to raised top dollar for the
Ottawa Humane Society (OHS)
on June 16.
More than 150 guests and
17 “top dogs” and “cool cats”
turned out and raised $75,000
during the charity’s first bailor-jail fundraiser as part of
the groundbreaking campaign.
Volunteers were “imprisoned”
until they solicited their own
bail from friends and family.
“We were just blown away
by the response,” said Bruce
Roney, the executive director
of the OHS.
Even before the event, the
groundbreaking campaign had
garnered 85 per cent of the OHS
goal of $9.5 million, according
to Roney.
IN THE CAGE
The June 17 event called on
pet lovers across the city to do
time in a dog cage trying to
raise money.
Knoxdale-Merivale
Coun.
Keith Egli had managed to
raise $1,200 part way through
the night.
“This is a great event and the
new facility is going to really
benefit the ward,” he said.
Dave Smythe, who said he
was jailed for stealing food
from his chocolate lab named
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goal and was sprung from the
joint.
Smythe got involved because
he did some of the plumbing
for the OHS and was asked to
participate.
“It’s a chance for people to see
the new facility before we move
the animals in,” Roney said.
Aside from the pledges, some
of the funds came from a silent
auction — which included donated items such as a Ben Babelowsky print and a round of
golf at Mont Tremblant.
The animals will all be moved
into the new facility at on West
Hunt Club Road — just east of
Merivale Road on June 24.
The building is more than
three times the size of the older Champagne Avenue facility.
Roney said the air quality is
also largely improved, nearing
that of hospitals.
The animals will be housed
in glass enclosures — something Roney said will help reduce their anxiety.
“Also people just seem to subconsciously value things more
when they are behind glass,”
Roney said.
There will also be a yearround cat porch and more surgical tables.
Roney said the new facility
would have better hours and
they plan to offer things like
obedience classes, grooming
and classes for pregnant women on how to introduce your pet
to your new baby.

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Dave Smythe endures a dog day during the Ottawa Humane Society’s
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Your neighbourhood could
be getting its very own Rink
of Dreams.
An outdoor refrigerated
rink at city hall planned for
next winter is causing a stir,
but the Ottawa Senators Foundation has bigger plans to create a series of similar rinks
across the city and region.
Danielle Robinson, president of the Sens foundation,
said the NHL-sized rinks
would have permanent boards
and concrete platforms that
would be used as basketball
courts in the summer; however, they won’t be refrigerated
or maintained by ice-resurfacers like the Rink of Dreams at
city hall.
It’s part of the foundation’s
new focus on providing access

to social and recreational activities for kids outside school
hours, she said.
“Those kids in those neighbourhoods, they really don’t
have a lot of additional funding
within their families to get out
and participate in sport and
reaction opportunities,” Robinson said. “The idea around
this is to provide a facility and
the resources to make it much
more accessible.”
Locations for the rinks
haven’t been decided, but Jim
Durrell from the Sens foundation said the group is looking
at putting the first rink somewhere in Vanier. If that rink is
built this fall, it will serve as
a project for the foundation’s
yet-to-be-named
community
rinks
program,
Robinson
said.
The foundation is remaining
tight-lipped on details about

the program, including how
many rinks will be set up and
where, or how much the project could cost. Those details
will be revealed during an official announcement in early
fall, Robinson said.
Steve Kanellakos, the deputy city manager of operations,
said the program will improve
year-round recreational opportunities throughout the
city.
“It’s not just about this,” he
said, referring to the showpiece outdoor rink at city
hall that was approved by city
council on June 8. “This is
about improving our neighbourhoods across the city.”
While these smaller neighbourhood rinks won’t be refrigerated, they will be an
improvement over the regular
outdoor rinks the city sets up,
Kanellakos said.

“It will be a much more enhanced experienced,” Kanellakos said.
The city currently has about
300 temporary outdoor rinks,
and Robinson said some of the
new rinks the foundation sets
up could replace some of the
more rundown ones that already exist. There could also
be new rinks in areas that
don’t already have one, she
said.
The cost to build and set
up the rinks would be absorbed by the Sens foundation
through its fundraising efforts for the Rink of Dreams
program. Maintenance and
operations for the rinks would
be done through the city’s existing rinks program, which
offers grants to community
groups to take on the task of
maintaining the rinks using
volunteer labour.

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Barrhaven Public School Grade 3 and 4 teacher
Christine de Wit has been recognized as one of Ontarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top educators.
De Wit was selected as one of three provincial winners of the 2011 TVOKids Best Teacher Ever Contest
on June 17.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m honoured,â&#x20AC;? de Wit said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It came as a complete surprise.â&#x20AC;?
The fifth annual contest ran from May 2 to June 12
and received 9,300 entries from children across the
province eager to recognize their teachers. The contest invited kids to nominate their favourite teacher
and tell TVOKids what makes them the best teacher
ever.
Grade 4 student Adeline Travis nominated her
teacher because she created a positive learning environment, which allowed her to improve her skills.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I noticed my reading spelling got a lot better,â&#x20AC;?
Adeline said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a lot of fun.â&#x20AC;?
De Wit said she was touched that one of her students would recommend her.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had no idea,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She (Adeline) did it very
quietly.â&#x20AC;?

The city followed the rest of the world in acknowledging June 15 as Elder Abuse Awareness Day.
The day has been recognized internationally
since 2006 by the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse and was recognized with an
official proclamation by Knoxdale-Merivale Coun.
Keith Egli on June 15.
Joyce Drouin, the elder abuse prevention coordinator for the Nepean, Rideau and Osgoode Community Resource Centre (NROCRC), said she was
happy to see the city mark the important date.
The elder abuse referral and response program
at NROCRC gets $35,000 in annual funding from the
Champlain Local Health Integration Network â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an
administrative body that manages health funding
for agencies across eastern Ontario.
That allows for Drouin to work parttime at NROCRC taking calls from the public concerning possible cases of abuse.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We take the call and then we assess whether the
police need to be involved, or if they are in crisis
and need to be moved. Then they are linked to the
appropriate services,â&#x20AC;? Drouin said.
Drouin said if she had a wish list she would love
to have funding for a transition worker to help community centres get connected with at-risk seniors
in their area.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our territory is the whole city,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I
would love to be able to go to places like the Carlington Community Centre and introduce a senior
and then let them take it from there.â&#x20AC;?
Drouin said she would also like to see transition
workers available for seniors who have to leave
their homes to help with issues like banking and
phone hookups.
Drouin said she has seen some increase in the
number of calls she takes over the last two years,
but she thinks itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s due in part to increased awareness of elder abuse.

Winners from three grade categories were selected from all
the entries. The teachers selected in the draw each won a $400
gift card from Scholarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice
and a notebook computer.
For nominating de Wit, Adeline receives a $100 gift card
from Scholarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice, an iPod
Shuffle and a pizza party for her
class.

Photo by Daniel
Nugent-Bowman

Barrhaven
Riverside South and Manotick
Outdoor water ban restrictions relaxed.
Residents can use water
outdoors one day a week
according to their designated geographical zone.
Each zone has an assigned
day from Monday to Friday
when residents can use
some outdoor water.
Find your zone at ottawa.
ca/waterinfo, and water
your plants and fill containers on your assigned
day only. There is no
watering on weekends.
Splash pads will also open
on Saturdays and Sundays.
Sprinklers, washing
vehicles and filling pools
or hot tubs remain
prohibited. Outdoor water
use by commercial car washes, construction or other businesses is not permitted.
The City of Ottawa continues to help residents by offering top-ups of pools and hot tubs,
water at local garden retailers and rain barrel rebates.

By working together, we will continue to have clean,
safe drinking water all summer long.
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Students from
Christine de
Witâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grade
3/4 class are
all smiles after
their teacher,
back row third
from left,
won the 2011
TVOKids Best
Teacher Ever
Contest. De Wit
was nominated
for the award
by Adeline
Travis, top left.

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It appears a first-place showing at the
Gloucester Fair is only the tip of the iceberg for Team Eatapedia.
The team, led by Barrhaven resident
John Thomson, had only planned on entering the fair’s Smoked to the Bone competition to gain experience after winning
as amateurs in 2010.
But to their surprise, they won the
chicken-cooking portion of the event
thanks to a tender capote chicken rub and
Kansas City sauce combination, earning
$1,000 in the process.
They will now form a team with local
chef Steph (the Grilling Gourmet) Legari
and the rest of his kitchen crew in an
international barbecue event hosted at
American Ambassador David Jacobson’s
residence on July 4 for 3,500 people.
“We’ve been working on this since January,” Thomson said. “It has been a lot of
work.”
Thomson began his elaborate barbecuing after a co-worker bought a smoker
and invited him over to try ribs – which
Thomson used to cook by broiling them.
“It was like nothing I’ve ever tasted,”
the 43-year-old said.
Thompson bought a wood-based smok-

er soon after with the intention of competition in events since propane is strictly
prohibited in barbecue events.
He eventually connected with Stittsville’s Paul Firlotte and Winchester’s
Mike Hynes to create Team Eatapedia,
an online recipe registry, which started
gaining notoriety.
The team visited Georgia to train with
American barbecue expert Myron Mixon
and even got some tips from Danielle
(Diva Q) Dimovski – one of Thomson’s
favourites.
“The barbecue crowd is such an accommodating group,” he said. “Everybody is
super friendly and everyone is in it for
the spirit of barbecue.”
The competitors are provided with
meat and given the night to season, slice
and dice and begin cooking the respective
recipes in half-hour intervals. They are
then judged by certified judged for their
food’s appearance, texture, tenderness
and taste.
Although the team didn’t fare as well
at the fair in the other events – finishing
11th overall out of 13 teams in rib, pulled
pork and beef brisket – Thomson said it
was an invaluable learning experience.
“It’s a hobby,” he said. “The main reason we do it is to have fun and meet great
people.”

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